Perseid meteor spotted;captured

superiorstream · Post by **superiorstream** » Fri Aug 13, 2010 2:30 pm

Hi,All
Stopped obing the sun these few days to wake up early to photo the Perseid in the later part of the night--Under these superbright skies.Saw a bright one on 12Aug 2010 about 10 degrees N-East of Jupiter but fail to capture it(around mag 2).Today 13 Aug 10--dawn 05:19am Singapore time,capture a fireball which is much brighter than Sirius.Manage to photo it also--it really pay to have patience!Thanks.

Gary · Post by **Gary** » Fri Aug 13, 2010 2:38 pm

Congrats! Do show us the photo when it is ready.

ykchia · Post by **ykchia** » Fri Aug 13, 2010 8:51 pm

Hi Chia:

Congratulation! I check my log sheet. Looks like the Per you captured is outside my FOV. Hope the weather clear up for all of us to play with dSLR again.

The composite stills meteors with Perseids dominating just uploaded
http://nightevents.blogspot.com/2010/08 ... mpler.html

Will add the youtube link later.. uploading in progress.

rgds
ykchia

timatworksg · Post by **timatworksg** » Fri Aug 13, 2010 9:53 pm

@croy

Hey bro! If you are awake you can SMS me...haha! I will probably get up early to check out the meteors and set up for some AP practice on Orion as it rises in front of my balcony!!

Now...I just hope that when I awake and look at the night sky with my sleepy eyes it would have cleared after the RAIN!!!! arrrgh!

superiorstream · Post by **superiorstream** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 12:20 pm

Hi,All
Here is the photo-hope it show

superiorstream · Post by **superiorstream** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 12:32 pm

Hi,All
Glad it show up.Now try submitting to spaceweather.com.

Gary · Post by **Gary** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 2:54 pm

Wow! Massive! Thanks for sharing.

timatworksg · Post by **timatworksg** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 5:20 pm

Looks like a Jedi lightsaber in the sky!!..lol!

Great rewarding shot!